The COVID-19 Pandemic has accelerated radical changes and transformations that have been taking place in the world for a long time. This lecture will trace the roots of these changes from all the way back to 50 thousand years ago, when Homo Sapiens first began to reign over the planet after eliminating their rivals, through the 5,000-year existence of the state that emerged with the Sumerian civilization and came to dominate the last 500 years as re-imagined by the West and represented mainly by the United Nations in the previous 50 years. This lecture will take a long view of the concepts of state, order, system, stability, violence, conflict, war, etc.
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Erdem Denk, Ankara University
Language: Turkish
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Prof. Dr. Erdem Denk is a faculty member at Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in the same department, and his doctorate at Cardiff University Faculty of Law. He has eleven books, two book translations and articles published on topics such as the United Nations system, international organizations, European integration and human rights theory. He has been working on the history of states and their laws from the stone age to the present (www.erdendenk.com).